There are some days wherein I don't feel beautiful at all-I would loathe at my skin, criticize my body harshly, and would just submit to physical inferiority. Sounds downright unbelievable for a person who blogs about Beauty, right? Well I'm only human and just like any other human, I, too, have my own battles.

It pays to be in a spiritual journey, I tell you. It's where I am at this point and this helps me BIG TIME when it comes to battling these insecurities of mine. When my monkey brain becomes dominant, I just turn on the inside and find that voice within saying "Hey, you're being too harsh on yourself. Trust me, you don't look that bad"-it gets me through all the time.

Only 7% of women feel good about themselves.

I just thought about these because of this new video by Dove called 'Patches'. It's about a group of women who wore beauty patches that promise to help them feel good about themselves for a time. So what happened to these women after the experiment? Watch the video.
Why do 93% of women don't feel good about themselves? A lot of factors influence this number such as unattainable beauty and body standards, societal pressure, proliferation of single- minded concepts of men and women (e.g. tall, dark, handsome; tall, skinny, fair), colonial mentality, and so much more. Moreover, almost everyone supports these standards too. 

 The truth is, these ridiculous standards will never go away-they might be diminished, but they will always echo in our society. So what do you do? Just turn on the inside-at the end of the day, you only have you and your opinion about you is what only matters. Stop chasing what's inside on the outside.

So that's my beauty reflection for today. How about you? What do you think about the video and its message?